Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the knowledge of evil.Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Do I dare set forth here the most important, the most useful rule of all education? It is not to save time, but to squander it.Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to preserve it. Has it ever been said that a man who throws himself out the window to escape a fire is guilty of suicide?Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Falsehood has an infinity of combinations, but truth has only one mode of being.Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Gratitude is a duty which ought to be paid, but which none have a right to expect.Jean-Jacques Rousseau
He who is the most slow in making a promise is the most faithful in the performance of it.Jean-Jacques Rousseau
If the life and death of Socrates were those of a sage, the life and death of Jesus were those of a God.Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Little privations are easily endured when the heart is better treated than the body.Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Money is the seed of money, and the first guinea is sometimes more difficult to acquire than the second million.Jean-Jacques Rousseau
